doughnut
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doughnut¹
- /ˈdəʊnʌt/ UK
- /ˈdoʊ(ˌ)nʌt/ Canada, US
Sounds like donut · Rhymes with -əʊnʌt
Where it comes from
From dough + nut, 1809 because originally small, nut-sized balls of fried dough, or, more likely, from nut in the earlier sense of "small rounded cake or cookie", with the toroidal shape becoming common in the twentieth century. First attested in Knickerbocker’s History of New York, by Washington Irving, 1809.
noun doughnuts · do'nut · donut · dough-nut
- A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream. The soldiers, drawn up in hollow square—how apt is this word hollow, when applied to men who have fasted, in view of promised doughnuts!—received the procession, which consisted of music, then the ladies, then the doughnuts.
- A circular life raft. He put on the life jacket and began paddling around. A doughnut life raft popped up out of the ocean in front of him.
- A toroidal vacuum chamber. In about 1951, the same company sealed into their vacuum doughnuts the regenerative peelers so that X-ray beams or electron beams could be obtained with the sealed off commercial tubes used in […]
- A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.
- A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full-sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.
- A kind of tyre for an airplane. The advantage of the doughnuts was that they spread the weight of the aeroplane over a much larger area of ground, causing less damage to grass, and making them less prone to bogging down in wet conditions.
- A shaper for making hair into a ponytail or bun Place the hair doughnut/ring around your ponytail
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A vulva; by extension, a woman's virginity.
When I was at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . . . there was a lady student there — and I had designs on her doughnut
Similar: ring, torus, toroid, axe wound, badly packed kebab, bearded clam, beaver, beef curtains, burger, chocha, clam, cooch
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A puffy anus with the outward shape of a donut; more generally, any anus.
Similar: ring, torus, toroid, donut hole
- A foolish or stupid person; an idiot. Nice going, you doughnut!
- A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
- A whole note.
verb doughnuts · doughnutting · doughnuting · doughnutted · doughnuted
- To encircle something. […] even the notorious ‘doughnuting’ (gathering around the Member speaking) appears to have fallen out of fashion.
Doughnut²
proper noun the Doughnut
- The head office of the GCHQ in Cheltenham, UK. Former hackers as well as government suits roam the curved corridors of “the Doughnut”, as GCHQ’s base is known.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: donut, ring, sinker, annulus, halo, anchor ring, anulus, cake, bagel, thicket, slap, scrub, donuts, dough-nut, ring doughnut, jam doughnut
Translations
Every language
noun deep-fried piece of dough or batter
| Español | dona, rosquilla, anillo, dónut, donut |
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| 한국어 | 도넛 doneot, 가락지빵 garakjippang |
| 日本語 | ドーナツ dōnatsu, ドーナッツ dōnattsu |
| 中文 | 甜甜圈 tiántiánquān, 沙翁 shāwēng, 多拿滋 duōnázī, 炸面圈 zhámiànquān |
| हिन्दी | डोनट ḍonaṭ |
| Kiswahili | andazi |
| Português | dónute, rosquinha |
| Français | beignet, donut, rosquille |
| Deutsch | Krapfen (ellipsoidal), Donut, Berliner, Pfannkuchen |
| Italiano | ciambella |
| Ελληνικά | λουκουμάς loukoumás, ντόνατ ntónat |
| Română | gogoașă |
| Русский | по́нчик pónčik, пы́шка pýška, пампу́шка pampúška, пампу́ха pampúxa |
| Tiếng Việt | bánh rán |
| العربية | دُونَات dūnāt, شِفَنْج šifanj, مَبْرُومَة mabrūma |
| עברית | סופגנייה, סֻפְגָּנִיָּה sufganiyá, דוֹנַט dónat, דונאט dónat |
noun peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of a doughnut
| Kiswahili | mandazi |
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Talk about this word "doughnut." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/doughnut. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. doughnut. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/doughnut "doughnut." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/doughnut.Cite this
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